{"id":12868,"date":"2013-07-16T19:25:49","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T02:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/?p=12868"},"modified":"2013-07-16T19:28:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T02:28:54","slug":"miraculous-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/16\/miraculous-mozart\/","title":{"rendered":"miraculous mozart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting my pre-rehearsal YouTube trawl of available online performances of the rep I&#8217;ll be playing at the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival next week, and though I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised at what I find, I&#8217;m inevitably still flummoxed by the quality of performances that are available for free viewing on YouTube. Here&#8217;s the renowned Faur\u00e9 Quartett playing the first movement of Mozart&#8217;s g minor Piano Quartet, K. 478.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3VGi_VsegnM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m starting my pre-rehearsal YouTube trawl of available online performances of the rep I&#8217;ll be playing at the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival next week, and though I shouldn&#8217;t be surprised at what I find, I&#8217;m inevitably still flummoxed by the quality of performances that are available for free viewing on YouTube. Here&#8217;s the renowned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[136,138],"tags":[3416,3420,3097,2690,3417],"class_list":["post-12868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamber-music","category-summer-festivals","tag-g-minor","tag-k-478","tag-methow-valley-chamber-music-festival","tag-mozart","tag-piano-quartet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8kC-3ly","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12855,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/13\/slack-tide\/","url_meta":{"origin":12868,"position":0},"title":"slack tide","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's been an uneventful week, with the exception of the dental surgery, and I'm looking forward to completing this downtime to get ready for my next gig. 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I played there once with my\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chamber music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chamber music","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/category\/music\/chamber-music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7696205290_27911bff12_z.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7696205290_27911bff12_z.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7696205290_27911bff12_z.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12883,"url":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/31\/the-sport-of-kings\/","url_meta":{"origin":12868,"position":1},"title":"the sport of kings","author":"Charles Noble","date":"July 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I am, of course, referring to chamber music. 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